Andrzej Schinzel

Andrzej Schinzel (1974)

Andrzej Schinzel (born April 5, 1937 in Sandomierz in Poland , † August 22, 2021 ) was a Polish mathematician who dealt with number theory.

Life

Andrzej Schinzel was a prize winner of the Mathematics Olympiad at the age of 14, a doctorate in maths at the University of Warsaw at the age of 23 and a full professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences at the age of 37 .

Schinzel published over 200 papers and dealt with many areas of number theory (analytical number theory, algebraic number theory, Diophantine equations, geometry of numbers), but especially with arithmetic and algebraic aspects of polynomials. Schinzel is known for one conjecture, Schinzel's H-conjecture (from 1958, in a work with Waclaw Sierpinski ). It says that irreducible integer polynomials , the product of which Q has no fixed prime p as a divisor (i.e. Q / p is not an integer polynomial again), represent prime numbers for an infinite number of integer values ​​of the variable x at the same time. ${\displaystyle f_{i}(x)}$

He was the editor of Acta Arithmetica for 40 years . Henryk Iwaniec is one of his doctoral students . In 1992 he received the Stefan Banach Medal . In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice (Reducibility of polynomials) and in 1962 he gave a lecture at the ICM in Stockholm (On the arithmetic of polynomials and some related problems) . In 1976 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He was a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences . He was an honorary citizen of Sandomierz and a holder of the order Polonia Restituta (knight; officer).

Fonts

• Andrzej Schinzel: Selecta. 2 volumes (Vol. 1: Diophantine Problems and Polynomials. Vol. 2: Elementary, Analytic and Geometric Number Theory. ). Edited by Henryk Iwaniec , Władysław Narkiewicz and Jerzy Urbanowicz. European Mathematical Society, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-03719-038-8 .

literature

• Győry Kálmán (editor): Number theory in progress: proceedings of the International Conference on Number Theory , in honor of the 60th birthday of Andrzej Schinzel, Zakopane, Poland, June 30 - July 9, 1997; organized by the Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center.

Web links

Commons : Andrzej Schinzel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Andrzej Schinzel in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• List of publications by Andrzej Schinzel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Zmarł wybitny matematyk prof. Andrzej Schinzel " on radio.kielce.pl from August 22, 2021 (Polish)
2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Andrzej Schinzel (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 20, 2016.